Mar 11, 2018

Workflow to start a Jekyll post by sharing a URL

Note: This document is itself written using Markdown; you can see the source for it by adding ‘.text’ to the URL. Overview Markdown is intended to be as easy-to-read and easy-to-write as is feasible.

You can use it to start a Jekyll blog post on a GIT repo managed by Working Copy, from a web page in Safari or any app that shares a URL. Above, you can see that I shared the URL to John Gruber’s Markdown documentation.

The workflow loads the URL of the page you share, extracts the title and an excerpt, then makes a new file in your repo with the title and tags you provide, adding the extracted content as a link and blockquote.

You are then free to write about the URL in Working Copy’s Markdown editor or share again, editing in a supported external editor like Textastic.